Go-Go Boots
The Southern gothic band explores small-town violence, wry self-deprecation, and character sketches on its latest record.
When the blood-splattered story-song “The Wig He Made Her Wear” appeared in the middle of Drive-By Truckers’ otherwise pop-friendly 2010 album The Big To-Do, it stuck out like a drunken, black-sheep uncle at a family reunion. But in light of Go-Go Boots—a purposefully looser, jammier, and altogether weirder collection…
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Another album, another dose of Southern life from Drive-By Truckers. They still sound good to <strong>Michael Hann</strong>
Whether or not Drive-By Truckers will ever manage to surpass 2001’s Southern Rock Opera – considered the band’s high-water mark, as well as one of alt-country’s signature records – remains to be seen, but in almost every release since that double album they’ve managed to come damn close.
Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers have produced remarkably consistent high quality music during the last ten years and Go-Go Boots finds them continuing to maintain that quality while also evolving. The band’s mix of hard rock, classic country, punk sneer and indie attitude have led to them being pretty much impossible to categorize, and by adding